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Meredith McCarthy's NZACH Talk Time Podcast
Meredith McCarthy NZACH
87 episodes
5 days ago
Send us a text As we begin a brand new year, many people are becoming more aware of just how busy — and sometimes misleading — the mind can be. In this Talk Time episode, clinical hypnotherapist Meredith McCarthy explores the importance of critical thinking and learning to pause, come into stillness, and discern between facts and assumptions. We often react to thoughts as if they are true, especially when emotions are running high. Meredith discusses how overthinking, emotional filters, and m...
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Send us a text As we begin a brand new year, many people are becoming more aware of just how busy — and sometimes misleading — the mind can be. In this Talk Time episode, clinical hypnotherapist Meredith McCarthy explores the importance of critical thinking and learning to pause, come into stillness, and discern between facts and assumptions. We often react to thoughts as if they are true, especially when emotions are running high. Meredith discusses how overthinking, emotional filters, and m...
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Alternative Health
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Meredith McCarthy's NZACH Talk Time Podcast
Is It Fact or Just a Thought Using Critical Thinking
Send us a text As we begin a brand new year, many people are becoming more aware of just how busy — and sometimes misleading — the mind can be. In this Talk Time episode, clinical hypnotherapist Meredith McCarthy explores the importance of critical thinking and learning to pause, come into stillness, and discern between facts and assumptions. We often react to thoughts as if they are true, especially when emotions are running high. Meredith discusses how overthinking, emotional filters, and m...
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4 days ago
14 minutes

Meredith McCarthy's NZACH Talk Time Podcast
The Change Is Coming: Why Adaptability Is the New Superpower
Send us a text As we reach the final days of 2025, many people are feeling the weight of change, personally, professionally, and collectively. In this episode of Talk Time, I explore how to break free from old belief patterns and develop the kind of mindset that helps you adapt, grow, and thrive in times of uncertainty. With rapid changes driven by technology, AI, and shifting life circumstances, adaptability has become one of the most important skills we can cultivate. In this conversa...
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1 week ago
18 minutes

Meredith McCarthy's NZACH Talk Time Podcast
Keeping Your Mind Positive in Times of Change
Send us a text As we move toward the end of 2025, many people are noticing just how much change they’ve been navigating — personally, emotionally, and globally. In this Talk Time episode, clinical hypnotherapist Meredith McCarthy shares gentle, practical insights into how we can keep our minds positive and steady, even when the world feels unsettled. This conversation explores the powerful connection between thoughts, language, and emotional wellbeing. Meredith explains how the internal dialo...
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2 weeks ago
9 minutes

Meredith McCarthy's NZACH Talk Time Podcast
Intuition vs Inner Chatter: How to Recognise True Inner Knowing
Send us a text In today’s Talk Time, Meredith McCarthy explores the difference between inner chatter and genuine intuitive knowing— and how this distinction plays a powerful role in hypnotherapy sessions and everyday decision-making. Many people confuse intuition with thoughts like “Should I?”, “What if?” or “Maybe I should…”. In this episode, Meredith explains why true intuition doesn’t arrive as a question at all — but as a calm, clear statement. A sense of knowing rather than overthinking....
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3 weeks ago
12 minutes

Meredith McCarthy's NZACH Talk Time Podcast
Why New Year’s Resolutions Fail, And How Hypnotherapy Helps You Succeed
Send us a text As we approach the end of the year, many people start thinking about New Year’s resolutions and fresh starts. But why do so many resolutions fall apart? And how can the mind be trained to support long-term success rather than sabotage it? In this week’s Talk Time, I explore how hypnotherapy can help you build the mindset of success — not just the idea of success. Most people who come to see me aren’t struggling with what they want to achieve, but how to believe in themselves lo...
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1 month ago
12 minutes

Meredith McCarthy's NZACH Talk Time Podcast
Stop Imagining It — Start Creating It: How to Turn Vision Into Action
Send us a text In this episode of Talk Time, Meredith McCarthy explores the powerful difference between imagining a better life and actually taking the steps to create it. As a clinical hypnotherapist with over 30 years of experience, Meredith unpacks why so many people begin each year full of hope and good intentions but fall into procrastination, fear, or uncertainty before real progress is made. This conversation is a practical, grounded look at how to move from dreaming to doing. Meredith...
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1 month ago
14 minutes

Meredith McCarthy's NZACH Talk Time Podcast
Meredith McCarthy shares the deeply personal story that shaped her life, her identity, and ultimately her calling as a clinical hypnotherapist.
Send us a text Meredith opens up about discovering she was adopted at sixteen, the loss of her brother to childhood cancer, and the impact these events had on her sense of belonging, self-worth, and internal dialogue. She reflects on how grief, identity struggles, depression, and dyslexia shaped her early years — and how these experiences later became the foundation for her work in supporting others through their own healing. This episode explores: • Growing up in Fiji and the tragedy that ch...
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1 month ago
19 minutes

Meredith McCarthy's NZACH Talk Time Podcast
Changing Your Mindset: Why “I’m Not Good Enough” Is Old News
Send us a text What if “I’m not good enough” is just an old story your mind forgot to update? In this episode, Meredith McCarthy explains how hypnotherapy helps you rewrite that script. In this Talk Time episode, clinical hypnotherapist Meredith McCarthy from Wellington, New Zealand, explores how hypnotherapy can help people break free from the deeply ingrained belief, “I’m not good enough.” Meredith explains how these limiting beliefs often start in childhood, then quietly shape our choices,...
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1 month ago
4 minutes

Meredith McCarthy's NZACH Talk Time Podcast
Unconscious Bias in Hypnotherapy | Why Curiosity is the Key to Ethical Practice
Send us a text Welcome to Talk Time with Meredith McCarthy, founder of the New Zealand Academy of Clinical Hypnotherapy (NZACH) and President of the New Zealand Association of Professional Hypnotherapists (NZAPH). In this episode, Meredith explores unconscious bias in clinical hypnotherapy — what it looks like in a client session, how it can quietly shape our choices, and what every therapist or student needs to know to avoid it. Learn how to: Recognise your own unconscious filters and projec...
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2 months ago
7 minutes

Meredith McCarthy's NZACH Talk Time Podcast
Talk Time with Meredith McCarthy | NLP: Aiming for Excellence, Not Average
Send us a text Talk Time with Meredith McCarthy | NLP: Aiming for Excellence, Not Average Hello and welcome! In today’s Talk Time, I dive into one of my favourite Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) concepts — modelling excellence. Have you ever noticed how some people just seem to excel effortlessly? It’s not luck — it’s strategy. NLP teaches us to study what successful people do and “copy-paste” those patterns into our own lives. Whether it’s learning a new skill, improving communication, or...
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2 months ago
10 minutes

Meredith McCarthy's NZACH Talk Time Podcast
“Dealing with Extreme Stress | Finding Calm in Chaos”
Send us a text Kia ora, I’m Meredith McCarthy, a Clinical Hypnotherapist based in Wellington, New Zealand. In this heartfelt episode, I open up about my recent experience caring for my elderly mother and how it reminded me of the importance of slowing down, accepting support, and finding calm in life’s most stressful moments. If you’ve ever had your world turned upside down by an unexpected event — the phone call that changes everything — this Talk Time is for you. Together, we’ll explore: ✨ ...
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2 months ago
11 minutes

Meredith McCarthy's NZACH Talk Time Podcast
White-Light Relaxation: Deep Breathing Meditation for Inner Calm, Balance, and Restorative Sleep
Send us a text Welcome to Talk Time with Meredith McCarthy. This guided meditation invites you into a deeply restorative state using mindful breathing, gentle eye-blink relaxation, a descending staircase visualisation, and a soothing white-light practice. It’s designed to calm the nervous system, soften physical tension, and reconnect you with a steady, peaceful centre. Safety first: Please do not listen while driving, operating machinery, or doing anything that requires your full attention. ...
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3 months ago
23 minutes

Meredith McCarthy's NZACH Talk Time Podcast
Pebbles in the Pond: A Deep Relaxation & Focus Meditation
Send us a text Kia ora — I’m Meredith McCarthy. Welcome to NZACH Talk Time. This guided meditation helps your body relax deeply while training your mind to practise single-pointed focus. Using a gentle body-scan and the pebble-and-pond imagery, you’ll release tension, calm racing thoughts, and reconnect with the quiet wisdom inside you. What this practice will help with: • Deep physical relaxation (head, jaw, spine, hips and legs) • Reducing stress, overwhelm and mental chatter • Improving si...
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3 months ago
23 minutes

Meredith McCarthy's NZACH Talk Time Podcast
Double Binds: Creating Freedom Through Choice | Talk Time with Meredith McCarthy
Send us a text Welcome back to Talk Time with Meredith McCarthy. I’m a Clinical Hypnotherapist based in Wellington, New Zealand, with over 30 years of experience, and every week I share practical insights into the art and science of clinical hypnotherapy. In today’s episode, we’re talking about double binds — a classic Ericksonian language pattern that helps bypass resistance and create cooperation in a gentle, ethical way. Double binds give clients the freedom of choice, while both choices n...
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3 months ago
5 minutes

Meredith McCarthy's NZACH Talk Time Podcast
The Yes Set & Agreement Frames: Leading the Mind Toward Change | Talk Time with Meredith McCarthy
Send us a text Welcome to Talk Time with Meredith McCarthy. I’m a Clinical Hypnotherapist based in Wellington, New Zealand, with over 30 years of experience helping people unlock the power of the subconscious mind. In today’s episode, we explore two of the most powerful hypnotic language patterns: The Yes Set and Agreement Frames. These simple yet transformative techniques help you build rapport, bypass resistance, and guide clients toward lasting change. What You’ll Learn in This Episode His...
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4 months ago
8 minutes

Meredith McCarthy's NZACH Talk Time Podcast
Embedded Commands: Planting Seeds of Change | Talk Time with Meredith McCarthy
Send us a text Welcome back to Talk Time with Meredith McCarthy – I’m a Clinical Hypnotherapist based in Wellington, New Zealand with over 30 years of experience. In this series, we’re exploring hypnotic language patterns that help bypass resistance and guide the subconscious mind toward healing and change. Today’s episode is all about embedded commands — subtle suggestions hidden inside ordinary sentences. Also known as “planting seeds of change,” embedded commands are a powerful way of help...
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4 months ago
10 minutes

Meredith McCarthy's NZACH Talk Time Podcast
Presuppositions: The Language of Assumed Change | Talk Time with Meredith McCarthy
Send us a text Welcome to Talk Time with Meredith McCarthy – Clinical Hypnotherapist, educator, and founder of the New Zealand Academy of Clinical Hypnotherapy (NZACH). In this episode, we explore the hypnotic power of presuppositions — subtle language patterns that bypass resistance and assume success is already happening. Instead of asking if change will occur, presuppositions shift the focus to when and how. This simple linguistic shift creates powerful results in hypnotherapy and everyday...
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4 months ago
11 minutes

Meredith McCarthy's NZACH Talk Time Podcast
Metaphors That Heal: Storytelling for the Subconscious | Talk Time with Meredith McCarthy
Send us a text Welcome to Talk Time with Meredith McCarthy – Clinical Hypnotherapist, educator, and founder of the New Zealand Academy of Clinical Hypnotherapy (NZACH). In this episode, we explore how metaphors and storytelling bypass resistance, speak directly to the subconscious, and create lasting transformation. From childhood fairy tales to therapeutic metaphors in hypnotherapy, stories have always shaped how we understand the world — and in hypnosis, they can unlock powerful shifts. Wha...
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4 months ago
22 minutes

Meredith McCarthy's NZACH Talk Time Podcast
The Milton Model in Hypnotherapy | Conversational Hypnosis & Language Patterns for Change
Send us a text Welcome to Talk Time with Meredith McCarthy – Clinical Hypnotherapist, educator, and founder of the New Zealand Academy of Clinical Hypnotherapy (NZACH). In today’s episode, we explore the Milton Model – the conversational hypnosis approach inspired by Dr. Milton Erickson that uses artfully vague language patterns to bypass resistance, build rapport, and invite the subconscious mind to create change. You’ll discover how hypnotherapists can: Use vague and open-ended language to ...
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5 months ago
19 minutes

Meredith McCarthy's NZACH Talk Time Podcast
Unlock the Power of Indirect Suggestion in Hypnotherapy
Send us a text Unlock the Power of Indirect Suggestion in Hypnotherapy | Talk Time with Meredith McCarthy Welcome to Talk Time. I’m Meredith McCarthy, a Clinical Hypnotherapist based in Wellington, New Zealand, and founder of the New Zealand Academy of Clinical Hypnotherapy (NZACH). In this episode, we explore the subtle art of indirect suggestions—one of the most powerful and respectful tools in modern clinical hypnotherapy. If you’ve ever wondered how to bypass resistance and support long-t...
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5 months ago
17 minutes

Meredith McCarthy's NZACH Talk Time Podcast
Send us a text As we begin a brand new year, many people are becoming more aware of just how busy — and sometimes misleading — the mind can be. In this Talk Time episode, clinical hypnotherapist Meredith McCarthy explores the importance of critical thinking and learning to pause, come into stillness, and discern between facts and assumptions. We often react to thoughts as if they are true, especially when emotions are running high. Meredith discusses how overthinking, emotional filters, and m...